#31
chr1s (I can't remember my own name) wrote:
Posted on Fri, 11 September 2009 at 08:03
#32
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
Joking aside, it’s quite a comedown in life isn’t it?
Being the drummer in Joyrider, I mean. Taxi driving’s a perfectly decent job…
Posted on Fri, 11 September 2009 at 08:50
#33
bristarman (Brian) wrote:
I’ve got the ‘It Moved’ single and Andy produced the b-sides. They are really bad mixes - I mean really really terrible. I still listen to Be Special quite a bit. Great album.
Posted on Fri, 11 September 2009 at 10:26
#34
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
Not quite right Brian:
Andy C wrote:
I was asked to ‘produce’ the single by Phil the singer. At the time they were on my label Blunt records. At that time I had been asked my opinion on the arrangement of the songs, that was all. Regardless of what it might say on the label/sleeve no buttons were pushed by me and I most certainly didn’t mix the thing, as at that time I most certainly wouldn’t have had the know-how. The version on Blunt was also released while I was on tour and hadn’t heard the final versions. At that moment in time Joyrider used the ‘produced by Andy of Therapy?’ angle to open a few doors. I certainly didn’t sit at the back of a studio, cloth- eared,nose deep in a mountain of cocaine shouting “more reverb!”…it might have sounded better if i had though…
I should also mention that the 2nd time the tracks were released (as a b side on a major) they had already been remixed (not by me, honest!), again, I was on tour but I think the tracks were added to give the singles some b-sides.
Still, ‘Be Special’ is a great and much overlooked album.
Best,
Andy C.
Posted on Fri, 11 September 2009 at 15:57
#35
richboy wrote:
CarlOfHellacious! wrote:
Yup they did Rush Hour, have some cracking tracks on the album ‘Be Special’
Did they do another album? I had some EP’s from that period but got rid of them in an attempt to cut down my collection
yes. they were dropped* before it was released. “skid solo”. it is shite apart from a few songs. i thought they were great when i was at school. great live band. we used to see them around town (my wee bro sort of knew simon as he worked with simon’s girlfriend in woolies) and probably gave them the reception that “case of fire” (who, ironically i went to school with) now get
*i remember hearing phil saying that the label were trying to turn them into some type of britpop band and telling them what to wear etc. that really comes across in the music (a (downhill) progression from “all gone away”)
Posted on Fri, 11 September 2009 at 20:19 in reply to an earlier post
#36
CarlOfHellacious! (carl) wrote:
Yea I can kinda see that from later output, cheers for letting us know!
All Gone Away was a cracking tune, very very pop though.
My sister actually had it on a smash hits tape, I know this because I stole it to listen to that track, and i believe it had East 17 on it too!
Posted on Sun, 13 September 2009 at 20:52
#37
buffalo-boy wrote:
Much love here for Joyrider! where else can I go and catch up with all the gossip of long forgotten bands…i love you lot!
Now, I wonder if anyone remembers a band called Ruby Cruiser… their album 12 Short Stories was a cracker.
Posted on Sun, 13 September 2009 at 21:31
#38
buffalo-boy wrote:
I just found out what happened to Ruby Cruiser! Found their guitarist on facebook! I’m made up!
Posted on Sat, 26 September 2009 at 11:20
#39
Pip (Philip Kelly) wrote:
Does Buck still have the family wagon?
Hew was my old landlord’s cousin
Posted on Sat, 26 September 2009 at 22:00
#40
buffalo-boy wrote:
yes he does but its painted orange now
Posted on Sun, 27 September 2009 at 18:28
#41
Floyd wrote:
Is that Ruby Cruiser as in the band from Abergavenny? I used to knock around with Ed and Matt and the EJ’s in the mid-late 90’s, weird seeing the pics on the Facebook group as I went to most of those shows in TJ’s
Posted on Mon, 19 October 2009 at 16:07
#42
buffalo-boy wrote:
it is indeed! how cool! i met lino on facebook, the guitarist?
Posted on Mon, 19 October 2009 at 20:58
#43
Floyd wrote:
Yeah, he was always shitfaced in TJ’s, mad bunch of lads that lot but funny as fuck
Posted on Mon, 19 October 2009 at 21:04
